Christian Living
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Thomas Merton

EMPTINESS/SUNYATA From emptiness comes the unconditioned. From this, the conditioned, the individual things. So from the sage’s emptiness, stillness arises: From stillness, action. From action, attainment. From their stillness comes ...
( Category: Philosophy July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Robin Meyers

The Fertility of Trust In the late 1960s, a controversial educational study took place called the Oak School experiment. It figured prominently in an equally controversial book, Pygmalion in the ...
( Category: Theology July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Garry Friesen & J. Robin Maxson [Friesen, Garry]

Putting Desires in Their Place The traditional view teaches that our personal desires can be a road sign pointing to God’s individual will. But once again, there is some difficulty ...
( Category: Management & Leadership July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:David Platt [Platt, David]

A BETTER WAY A house church leader in Asia once wrote how persecution in his country had stripped his church of its resources. Yet, in his mind, this had been ...
( Category: Christian Living July 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Ché Ahn [Ahn, Ché]

ASK YOURSELF 1. Consider these two sentences from the text: “God does not call us to live on the edge of poverty in order to be able to give more ...
( Category: Christian Living July 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rebillard, Éric,Rawlings, Elizabeth Trapnell,Routier-Pucci, Jeanine

Gregory contrasts sacrifice and pity, and puts the care of Joseph and Nicodemus to bury Jesus in the category of sacrifice. Therefore, for him they are not at all models ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Mary Poplin

23 Fighting Abortion with Adoption THE CHILDREN'S CENTERS RUN BY the Missionaries of Charity take in unwanted children and match them with adoptive parents. Mother Teresa said they fought abortion ...
( Category: Ministry & Evangelism July 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-11 | Author:Jeremy Arnold

A MANIPULATIVE YOUNG ACTRESS WORMS HER WAY INTO THE LIFE OF A FAMOUS STAGE STAR AND GRADUALLY MANEUVERS TO SUPPLANT HER. WHY IT’S ESSENTIAL Witty lines abound in All About ...
( Category: Movies July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:James W. Jones

CHAPTER FOUR Christian Spirituality and Modern Society Spiritual Practice as Cultural Critique So far we have discussed why it is important to think of Christianity as a spiritual practice. But, ...
( Category: Philosophy July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-28 | Author:Bob Goff

CLOSING PRAYER As you and the group members stand together in the circle, close by having one person read the words of Psalm 23:1–4 as a prayer and promise from ...
( Category: Christian Living July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Kevin Leman [Leman, Kevin]

Establish equality. It Worked for Me * * * Ever since Dan and I joined our families three years ago, it’s been like World War III around the house. Our ...
( Category: Christian Living July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Chris Mavity [Mavity, Chris]

With those differences in mind, we will focus on training volunteers to be able to step into the roles they are gifted for and called to do. We’ll look at ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Todd Wilson & Rick Warren & Robert Coleman

Extending from the center of the lens are lines that represent the practices and behaviors Jesus modeled. The rest of this section provides a brief overview of each of these ...
( Category: Christian Living July 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Wayne Jacobsen [Jacobsen, Wayne]

Characteristic Two: Trusting Jesus’ work over human effort. During my travels I have found myself near the most opulent palaces, castles, and cathedrals in Europe, and I am always fascinated ...
( Category: Christian Living July 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-19 | Author:Ethan Renoe [Renoe, Ethan]

We slowly drifted apart over the early months of 2008, and by the next summer our relationship was little more than a basketful of memories we would often dig our ...
( Category: Relationships July 9,2018 )